In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.